Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/25600 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: base system Category: bug reports Priority: critical Assigned to: chx Reported by: kubaZygmunt Updated by: chx Status: patch Dries, while the xmlrpc rewrite is under way please commit Bart's patch http://drupal.org/node/25600#comment-34362 chx Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 23, 2005 - 13:28 : kubaZygmunt Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/bootstrap.diff (422 bytes) I've found that new cvs version doesn't get properly db_prefix. In bootstrap.inc (function _drupal_bootstrap($phase) ) I added another global variable $db_prefix, and then it goes . I don't know if my solution is good because on my local site I can't see any blocks and on my internet site I have some caching and I can't see anything :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 23, 2005 - 14:45 : kubaZygmunt Above I've put my patch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 23, 2005 - 14:56 : Jaza Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/db_prefix_global.patch (582 bytes) Also noticed this bug, when trying to install a fresh CVS snapshot. Attached is my patch against CVS HEAD (same as kubaZygmunt's, basically). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 23, 2005 - 15:10 : chx Yes, this is a bug, if you look at the bootstrap patch, there were versions when I thought variables in settings.php should be written as $GLOBALS['something'] but then introduced global $something . Forgot when that something is db_prefix . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 28, 2005 - 07:26 : Jaza Can this patch be applied to HEAD please? This is not something that should be left sitting around in the issues list. Chx has identified that it was a simple honest mistake on his part, and has indicated that the submitted patch(es) will fix the mistake. Until this patch is applied, anyone who tries to install HEAD using db prefixes will get a fatal error. It doesn't get much more critical than that :-p. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 16:56 : Bart Jansens Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/20050630.bootstrap-prefix-update.patch (1.21 KB) There is another related problem, it is no longer possible to override variables in settings.php. And update.php no longer works. Updated patch attached. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 17:04 : chx Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/20050630.bootstrap-patch.patch (2.92 KB) Oh, and XML-RPC client is broken too. I talked with walkah and we found it the best to move xmlrpc.inc to modules which use them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 17:09 : chx Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/20050630.1.bootstrap-patch.patch (3.34 KB) some more xml-rpc fixes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 17:20 : Steven Making XML-RPC a conditional include was discussed a while ago, and decided against due to problems with the class persistency. Why is this now possible? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 19:36 : walkah basically - it's not. the problem is, well, the xmlrpc.inc is not very well written. It requires / depends on several global variables, etc. which leads to a fair bit of the scoping issues. If you look at what PEAR has done with this (since their XML-RPC module is based on the same original code)... you'll notice lots of $GLOBALS['...'] usage (see http://cvs.php.net/co.php/pear/XML_RPC/RPC.php) . Basically, I think we have 3 options: 1) keep banging on this old code to make it work. 2) switch libraries to either PEAR::XML-RPC or something like incutio's (http://scripts.incutio.com/xmlrpc/) 3) re-write our own custom xml-rpc library personally, I'd +1 #2 - since #1 is ugly, and #3 I personally don't have time for, and I'd rather see our developer resources going to more interesting things. that said, i know there are those with strong feelings against 3rd party libraries... but this needs to get fixed quickly. blogapi and drupal dist_auth are both currently broken in HEAD. (isn't there anyone else here that tests XML-RPC stuff??) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 19:38 : walkah just to follow up.. chx's patch in #7 only fixes XMLRPC servers... anything that uses XML-RPC client (i.e. drupal_auth or ping) will still be busted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 19:48 : moshe weitzman the 'we shouldn't use 3rd party libraries' argument is hogwash. that was recenyly followed up with 'look where that got us recently' which is even more stupid. security problems happen in your own code, and in other people's code. we've had several security mistakes of our own, and those mistakes have persisted a long time. the benefit of 3rd party libraries is that you don't have to write them, debug them, document them, or maintain them. if someone here is willing to do all of this for XMLRPC then great. But thats extremely unlikely so we either have to drop the whole feature set or use a 3rd party library. as you can tell, i favor #2 as well - switching libraries so we can do conditional inclusion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 20:01 : Dries #2 isn't GPL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 20:07 : Dries Looks like WordPress might be using that class though. Weird. I know Wordpress had a least two security issues with their XML-RPC library (and they aren't using Edd Dumbill's). There is no word about this at http://scripts.incutio.com/xmlrpc/ so it looks like it isn't maintained either (which renders the advantages of using third-party libraries moot-ish). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 20:17 : Dries The WP developers confirmed that they are using this library. Turns out there is a new website for it too: http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2005/05/23/ixr. WordPress' version lives at http://trac.wordpress.org/log/trunk/wp-includes/class-IXR.php. Some extra details at http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1400. Looking at the code, it doesn't appear to be PHP5 compliant. Plus, I'm not sure the license is compatible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 20:21 : chx I will rewrite the Incutio XML-RPC library for our own usage in July, I know this for quite a long time. a) I intend to start with Incutio's XML-RPC b) I contacted the author already and he is fine with GPL'ing the result. c) the result will be quite a bit different from the original, 'cos I'll make it use procedural notation and overall, more Drupalish. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 20:31 : chx " From: Simon Willison To: Karoly Negyesi Subject: Re: IXR GPL? Date: 05/25/05 18:40 On 25 May 2005, at 17:35, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
I'd like to get rid of the current XML-RPC implementation in Drupal and use IXR instead. Yours seems much more transparent and up to date.
I plan to rewrite it a bit so that it looses OOP, this enables us to conditionally include.
However, Drupal is GPL and I need IXR under GPL to work with.
Hmm... since you'll be rewriting it a bit, how's about I just give you permission to use it and relicense it as GPL provided you stick a note that it was derived (with permission) from IXR in a comment at the top somewhere? I really hate software licensing - I just want people to be able to use my code! Thanks, Simon "